Reposted by saramooheadUndiscovered Voices @uvcompetition.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Excellent update on all things @uvcompetition.bsky.social from committee deputy chair @maggiewomersley.bsky.social in the latest issue of @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Words and Pictures including: 👉 Meet the judges 👉 Masterclass details 👉 Info on limited FREE places tinyurl.com/nhcj48y4 #UV26tinyurl.comUNDISCOVERED VOICES Meet the JudgesWords and Pictures is the online magazine of SCBWI British Isles. 069
Reposted by saramooheadBooks for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025“Five new poetry collections, each with their own magic.” Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now! booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug... 02212
Reposted by saramooheadWill Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 22/04/2025It's now publicly live. So if you're a writer of any kind and are not a right wing loony, please sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comAn Open Letter of Solidarity With the Trans Community from UK WritersThe UK Supreme Court ruling of 17th April 2025 was the result of a coordinated and privately funded attack on the human rights and dignity of trans and non-binary people in the UK. We call upon our in... 1139
Reposted by saramooheadDr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Straight/cis friends - the best time to actually get your skin in the game might have been in the past, but the second best time is now. 010622
Reposted by saramooheadJonathan ‘the Edunaut’ Nalder @jnxyz.bsky.social · 21/04/2025And uplifting post for my #EduSky and #EduSkayAU friends >> www.businessinsider.com/teens-win-ea...businessinsider.com3 teens invented a salt-powered refrigerator that doesn't need electricity. They're building 200 of them for hospitals to use.The Thermavault refrigeration unit can keep vaccines cool with a reusable salt solution. The teens who built it plan to test it at 120 hospitals. 033
Reposted by saramooheadCassie 🤍 @cassiecbrown.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Orwell’s fairy tale tells the story of a farm’s rebellion against the tyranny of humans only to find themselves under a new totalitarian regime. It lays out the use of fear, propaganda, lies, and even hope as tools of oppression. Read about tyranny, it is critical now more than ever. #booksky 47110
Reposted by saramooheadEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘 22988212413
Reposted by saramooheadJoanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 20/04/2025So it's been a bit of a binbag of a week... BUT "Fight Like A Girl 2", feminist anthology featuring three trans authors, is a finalist in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards announced this evening, and I'm delighted for all my authors. You deserve this, all of you ♡ wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...wizardstowerpress.comFight Like A Girl – Volume 2ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-913892-84-5 EPUB: 978-1-913892-82-1 MOBI: 978-1-913892-83-8 13715
Reposted by saramooheadMarianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Go me and my skills. I’ve made a #UKKidLit starter pack for anyone looking to find the kids book chat community on here. Hope it helps. #KidsBooks #KidLitUK #BookChat go.bsky.app/LEQd4SR 5316978
Reposted by saramooheadHarry Woodgate @harrywoodgate.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Authors, illustrators, screenwriters, poets etc. Please sign this open letter regarding the recent UK Supreme Court judgement on trans peoples’ rights to legal recognition. 🏳️⚧️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comAn Open Letter of Solidarity With the Trans Community from UK WritersNOTE: THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT TO PRESS AND RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC ON TUESDAY - UNTIL THEN, PLEASE ONLY SHARE WITH SMALL GROUPS AND TRUSTED INDIVIDUALS. The UK Supreme Court ruling of 17th April 2025... 012597
Reposted by saramooheadGood Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/04/2025If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community. And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account. goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...goodlawproject.orgStop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law ProjectUse the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible. 3301249
Reposted by saramooheadSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps. 9198321845
Reposted by saramooheadMaggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us. We have to save us. And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creatorsprettyokmaggie.comAn Open Letter to My Fellow Book Creators — Pretty Ok MaggieInside me there are two wolves: the one that understands that the best activism happens behind closed doors and that everyone does what they can and that not everyone can be asked to do the same thing... 82156547
Reposted by saramooheadMarieke Nijkamp @mariekeyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here. So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids. 3307157
Reposted by saramooheadGita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Such a great initiative! I would give my OWN books to my 10 year old self – I loved #historicalbooks, #fantasy and #adventurestories and mine are all three! I wrote them for my 10 year old self AND my own kids because books like these with children of colour did not exist for far too long. #kidlituk 0165
Reposted by saramooheadRaven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 16/04/2025We see you. We stand with you. 010522
Reposted by saramooheadRashmi Sirdeshpande @rashmiwriting.bsky.social · 16/04/2025It’s dangerous to think that what happens across the ocean can’t happen here. It can. It does. It has already started. 081
Reposted by saramooheadBig Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025A vacancy has recently opened up at the Big Green Bookshop for a new customer. The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books. Please email biggreenbooks@gmail.com with a list of books you'd like to buy. The position is available straight away. 418054
Reposted by saramooheadSara Grant @authorsaragrant.bsky.social · 15/04/2025In June @Writers_Artists will publish my first non-fiction book – THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. For details & to pre-order at a 10% discount: UK: bloomsbury.com/uk/ultimate-gu… US: bloomsbury.com/us/ultimate-gu��� 473
Reposted by saramooheadRashmi Sirdeshpande @rashmiwriting.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Hello Bluesky! I’m a neurodivergent UK children’s author who thinks and talks too much and writes a mix of picture books, poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Looking forward to connecting with people who make and love books! #KidsBooksUK 712112
Reposted by saramooheadDr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Same with Irish surnames that have an apostrophe 2406
Reposted by saramooheadDebbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 25/11/2023UPDATED: My Bluesky Starter Thread. Newest version can always be accessed via debbieohi.link/starter (link in my profile bio, too). Feel free to share with anyone who needs it! My take on social media My Bluesky lists Beginner tips Starter thread for educators & librarians cont'd 👇🏼 913760
Reposted by saramooheadSebastian Yūe 💜🧡 @sebastianyue.bsky.social · 29/12/2023Hey, freelancers: it's time to raise your rates for 2024. You've gained another year of experience and you deserve to be paid for it. 2642280
Reposted by saramooheadBig Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 06/12/2023Hello. @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social has sent me some dosh, so I can send someone on Bluesky, the book of their choice. It's "Buy a Stranger aBook" evening, so if there's a book you want, get i touch! www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... 0411
Reposted by saramooheadcmatthewbacon.bsky.social @cmatthewbacon.bsky.social · 03/12/2023Help! Trying to remember the title of a children’s book I read back in the day. It involves kids on holiday in big old house, legends of dragons (or “worms”), finding old midwinter Mummers play costumes, and eventually the dragon revealed as an ancient earthwork in the landscape by snow. Any ideas? 122018
Reposted by saramooheadEbony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 02/12/2023And this one. (I will always cry over this song. Always.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8en...youtube.com"Rainbow Connection" with Kermit the Frog, Choir! Choir! Choir!, and New Yorkers at Lincoln CenterThis past October, Kermit the Frog and Choir! Choir! Choir! helped us to celebrate the new David Geffen Hall with a special sing-along performance of "Rainbo... 7508
Reposted by saramooheadFleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social · 01/12/2023@nosycrow.bsky.social is here.....!!!!! #ukkidlit #kidlituk 172
Reposted by saramooheadMari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 27/11/2023Ten years ago, World Fantasy Con was held at a wheelchair-inaccessible hotel in Brighton, UK. So I couldn't attend. In 2025, World Fantasy Con will return to this hotel, the Doubletree by Hilton Metropole in Brighton, UK. It's still inaccessible. 10223149
Reposted by saramooheadNadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 27/11/2023If you are still looking for a unique gift for the holiday season, then perhaps one of my dataviz / data art Giclee prints might be of interest ^_^ From visualizing π, to revealing cultural constellation diversity, star maps, butterflies, spirographs & more ✨ 👉 shop.visualcinnamon.com 031
Reposted by saramooheadLittle Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social · 24/11/2023I’m off to a doctors appt and after last night we had only 1 customer (a normal Fri would bring in €250-500) So I’m calling it and closing the rest of the day. There’s no rent relief for fascist riots so if you’re wisely staying home maybe consider littledeercomics.ie 125
Reposted by saramooheadJohnChalmers+SandraMarrs=Metaphrog @metaphrog.bsky.social · 21/11/2023Wonderful National Book Awards speech by Oprah Winfrey youtu.be/YOQjU59punY?...youtu.be2023 National Book Awards Ceremony - Oprah WinfreyThe 74th National Book Awards Ceremony was broadcast on November 15, 2023 at 8:00pm ET. Hosted by LeVar Burton, and featuring special guest Oprah Winfrey.The... 011
Reposted by saramooheadCompound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 18/11/2023The final scientist featured in the Spotlight Science series with Enable Science is Amie Sankoh. She researches communication between plant cells to tackle viral plant diseases. See and download the full series of posters here: bit.ly/SpotlightSci 062
Reposted by saramooheadSuw @suw.bsky.social · 18/11/2023I love this! Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma has developed a way to 3D print with wool, esp coarse European wool that isn't good for anything else. The resulting items or blocks could be used as insulation or to make furniture instead of synthetic materials. www.dezeen.com/2023/11/17/c...dezeen.comChristien Meindertsma invents technique for 3D printing with woolDutch designer Christien Meindertsma has developed a robot that can build three-dimensional volumes out of wool. 183
saramoohead @saramoohead.bsky.social · 18/11/2023Fascinating article, revealing the cost of "free" when it comes to messaging. 010
Reposted by saramooheadDr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 18/09/2023My first post ✨ Here are the rainbow science pin badges I design. I donate all the profit to the AKT, who help homeless LGBTQ+ people. So far the pins have raised £13,492. Please share ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🩵🤍🩷 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop 718891
Reposted by saramoohead🦇 bat 🦇 millman @mpoltonsimon.bsky.social · 16/11/2023This is one of the most beautiful and moving music interviews I’ve read. I don’t know how to describe how it touched me, but it was just a really beautifully honest look at the relationship between art and artist 162
Reposted by saramooheadRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16/11/2023Book Cover of the Day: 08024
Reposted by saramooheadKit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 09/11/2023Fancy a free writer's retreat in Dorset with a fee plus travel? The Bridport Prize have got 2 on offer for working class and/ or LGBTQIA+ writers, unpublished & self published authors or published writers of individual stories. Please share - closing date is 13th!! More details on their website. 24763
Reposted by saramooheadSteve May @stevemaythe1st.bsky.social · 08/11/2023What is Steve? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6733...bbc.co.ukNorthern Lights: What is Steve and why is it different to an aurora borealis?The rare phenomenon illuminates skies across the north-east of England and parts of Scotland. 012
Reposted by saramooheadJohn Shelley - Illustrator @studionib.bsky.social · 07/11/2023#kidlit friends, if like me you're enjoying the current BBC #Shakespeare season, a prompt that my #picturebook with Jane Sutcliffe 'Wills Words' is still available on order & from Charlesbridge in the US. The Guardian ran a showcase when it was released: www.theguardian.com/childrens-bo... #kidlitUKtheguardian.comHow William Shakespeare changed the way you talk – in picturesJane Sutcliffe and John Shelley tell us about their book Will’s Words, which celebrates the massive impact The Bard has on the way we talk today 174
Reposted by saramooheadBert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 01/11/2023It’s time! The Bert's Books Secret Santa. Sign up by 30th November, and pick a book you'd like to gift to someone else. I'll work out the best person to send that book to - and in return you'll get a book to unwrap too! bertsbooks.co.uk/secret-santa 1209
Reposted by saramoohead岡田和香 Wakou Okada @w-okada.com · 02/11/2023Happy #KidlitArtPostcard day! My name is Wakou Okada, and I am a book illustrator based in Japan. I like fantasy and enjoy telling stories with my art. I’m currently looking for work, especially opportunities for kidlit! website: www.w-okada.com mail: info@w-okada.com #kidlitart #illustration 1296
Reposted by saramooheadBree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 02/11/2023It's that time of year for campfires! Anybody make s'mores yet?? 🔥 Campfire washi tape and stationery set in my shop ~ breelundberg.bigcartel.com 15710